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floor, cellar side walls and foundation are cement and, being 10x24,. 

 is large enough for five incubators of two hundred-egg capacity each. 

 The floor plan has an alleyway D running its entire length. It 

 is four feet in width. The stairway into cellar is three feet wide. The 

 space south of the alleyway has a floor raised two feet higher than 

 alleyway floor. This space, or floor, is divided into ten brooder yards 

 E which are each 2x7 feet. The divisions between yards are re- 

 movable solid wooden frames, thus guarding against drafts. Each 

 yard has a glass window A as shown in upper drawing eighteen 

 inches square in the south end for sunshine and ventilation. These 

 windows can be lowered from outside for convenience. Each yard 

 has a brooder C eighteen inches square. Personally, I prefer the 

 fireless brooder. These yards can easily be cleaned with hoe and rake 

 by attendant standing in passageway. Before each new lot is put in 

 all partitions and brooders removed and floor thoroughly cleaned. 



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Incubator and brooder house. 

 INCOME. 



First Year. The first year I would buy five hundred hens and 

 expect the eggs not used for the incubators to pay all expenses of 

 keeping hens. I would also buy eight good cocks to mate with the 

 one hundred hens I would place in the breeding house. To start with, 

 the eggs would have to be sold in the open market, but as rapidly as 

 possible, I would work up a demand for fresh clean eggs. The sale 

 of cockerels for broilers and the pullets not kept for next year's 

 layers, would pay all expense of incubation and the raising of re- 

 maining pullets to maturity. 



Second Tear. The second year I would have the original five 

 hundred hens, pullets raised first year. 



